Set your location

By default, Microsoft Lync Online communications software tracks where you are as you log on from different locations. The location name you specify corresponds to your current network connection. For example, you might be using Lync Online on your laptop or mobile phone while traveling or from a conference room in another building, or you might sign out of Lync at work and then sign in from your home computer.

Depending on how your organization has set up your presence information, your contacts might be able to see your location as part of your presence information, which makes it easy to tell how available you are or what kind of communication might be best at the time. Once you set a particular location name, Lync remembers it, so the next time it detects that you’re using that network connection, the location name displayed with your presence changes to reflect it.

If you’re at a new location and specify a name that you previously used somewhere else, that name will become associated with the current (new) location and network connection.